Gerontology in Nebraska
21 providers, $17,323 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $338.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays gerontology clinicians in Nebraska
Across 15 gerontology clinicians in Nebraska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,179,509 in total — an average of $78,634 each, of which $75,953 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1April SmithLincoln$3,781
- 2Jean SuehlNorfolk$2,692
- 3Jenny DankertOmaha$2,662
- 4Tara PetersonOmaha$1,890
- 5Deborah SheldonKearney$1,574
- 6Amy StumpKearney$990
- 7Irish MillsOmaha$670
- 8Michelle SchielGrand Island$663
- 9Alexis CushmanOmaha$555
- 10Marie BissellLincoln$510
- 11Melissa BowenLincoln$338
- 12Mary ChristensenLincoln$195
- 13Katherine SpellerbergOmaha$153
- 14Taylor HardingOmaha$124
- 15Mariya KovalevaDouglas$117
- 16Christina VejnovichOmaha$110
- 17Shelly RetikisOmaha$86
- 18Eileen DineenOmaha$68
- 19Ann RoweOmaha$52
- 20Renee SullivanOmaha$48
- 21Rachel FortneyOmaha$43